Calculate your Law Pre-Application Readiness score (LPARS) to find out where you stand on your pre-law path.
The LPARS is an effort to score a pre-law student’s level of legal experience and extracurriculars, relative to the advice of authoritative sources (experts in admission to law school).
You should take the quiz if you are a pre-law student considering applying to law school in the future.
Many pre-law students have found it very helpful, and we hope you find it helpful too. Get started below! If you’d like more context before starting, scroll down to below the quiz.
Understanding Your Score
100–81: You appear to be well-positioned to apply to law school as far as shadowing and extracurriculars go; any marginal improvement could help you stand out even more (and give you more admissions offers and/or scholarships) but may very well not be necessary.
80–51: You’re in a solid footing but you may significantly benefit from smartly investing more in legal experience and other unique extracurricular opportunities between now and when you apply to law school.
50 or below: You may want to fundamentally reconsider your understanding of law and extracurriculars, and ensure that law school is right for you.
How the Quiz was Built
In the quiz, you’ll read 10 statements from very reputable experts (identified next to each statement) about what matters for law school admissions (understanding of law and if it’s the right path for you, legal experience, and extracurriculars). You’ll then be asked “How confident are you on where you stand?” (1 = not confident at all, 5 = very confident). Your overall score will be calculated at the end. The grading rubric appears above, after the quiz.
Note that the LPARS is an attempt to turn something subjective into something more objective, and should be taken as general guidance rather than a scientifically precise measurement. That said, this is the most precise measurement that we have seen to date, since nothing else out there exists that is more data-driven.
A Note on Sources
Note also that the quiz borrows statements from highly reputable sources; however, it was not built in partnership with any of the entities cited, nor do we, of course, imply an endorsement of Lex here. However, we see part of our role being to help disseminate the best advice to all pre-law students, whether they attend elite schools or not, and this is part of the goal for this quiz. Too many students are confused with contradictory advice, and the quiz is an attempt at bringing the best advice together in a way that makes sense and is easy to digest.
Note also that the statements quoted are opinions that are widely shared among many reputable sources, and we could easily quote many other similarly authoritative sources in place of each of the statements. We never quote any opinion that we could not identify many other similar opinions from equally reputable sources.